The Pirate Bay’s main .org domain has been unreachable for nearly a day now.
For most people, the site currently displays a CloudFlare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning that a “gateway timeout” is causing the issue.
As usual, no further details are available to us and there is no known ETA for the site’s full return. However, judging from past experience, it’s likely a small technical issue that needs fixing.
The Pirate Bay has had quite a few stints of downtime over the years. The popular torrent site usually returns after several hours, but outages of more than a day have occurred as well.
Despite the downtime, there are still some options left for people to access the notorious torrent site.
TPB is still available via its .onion address on the Tor network, accessible using the popular Tor Browser, for example. The site’s Tor traffic goes through a separate server and works just fine. Several dedicated TPB proxies are still up as well.
The Pirate Bay team has a status page in the forums where people can check to see if an outage is affecting everyone or not. This also shows that the Tor version of the site is working fine, and that new torrents are still coming through.
The main .org domain will probably be back in action soon enough, although there are no guarantees. Torrentz2, for example, disappeared a few weeks ago and still hasn’t returned. The .onion domain remains active but that hasn’t been updated with new content in nearly a week.
Update 19 December: TPB is back.
